Apollonioi is a former municipality on the island of Lefkada

Lefkada

Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

, Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands Periphery

Ionian Islands is one of the thirteen regions of Greece. It comprises the historical region of the Ionian Islands, except for the island of Kythera which belongs to Attica.-Administration:...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada

Lefkada

Lefkada, or Leucas or Leucadia , is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Lefkada . It is situated on the northern part of the island,...

, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located in the southwestern part of the island. Its population was 3,235 at the 2001 census. The seat of the municipality was in Vasiliki

Vasiliki, Lefkada

Vasiliki is a town in the municipal unit of Apollonioi, on the island of Lefkada, Greece. The village is linked with a road linking with the island capital and to Porto Katsiki and the eastern half of the island...

 (pop. 431). Its area is 124.709 km², comprising about 41 percent of Lefkada Island. Its largest towns are Ágios Pétros (pop. 578), Vasilikí, Sývros (418), and Marantochóri (327).

Subdivisions

The municipal unit Apollonioi is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets):

• Agios Ilias
• Agios Petros (Agios Petros, Ponti Agiou Petrou)
• Athani (Athani, Agios Nikolaos Niras)
• Chortata
• Dragano (Dragano, Panochori)
• Evgiros (Evgiros, Syvota)
• Komili
• Kontaraina
• Marantochori
  Marantochori
  Marantochori is a small, gay, quiet village in the southwestern corner in the island of Lefkada. Almost all of the village is made up of farmers. The village is usually very slow in the Spring, Fall, and Winter but come summer many residents return to their vacation homes in the village...
  
  
• Nikolis (Nikolis, Manasi)
• Syvros
• Vasiliki
  Vasiliki, Lefkada
  Vasiliki is a town in the municipal unit of Apollonioi, on the island of Lefkada, Greece. The village is linked with a road linking with the island capital and to Porto Katsiki and the eastern half of the island...
  
  
• Vournikas

Information

The area features beautiful beaches on the western side of the island, the most famous are in Porto Katsiki

Porto Katsiki

Egremni is a remote beach located on the south-western coast of the Ionian island of Lefkada, north-western Greece...

 and in Ekremnoi. The Porto Katsiki Beach has been voted the second best beach in the world.

External links

• Apollonioi on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)